For a long time I've kept a richtextfile (made with abiword) to keep notes on webpages and the like related to puppy linux and other stuff.

Today, when I tried to go back to some of those pages by cutting and pasting the web addresses from that files, I'd get a webpage with this error:

Quote:

The topic or post you requested does not exist

But if I find the same page, by searching the forums, it has the exact same address that I put in!

Even wierder: I thought, well maybe there's some sort of hidden code attached to the richtext. So I cut and past everything into a new text file in geany. And then cut and paste from there. I still get the same behavior.

Even wierder yet: In the geany text file, I can have two addresses that look identical to me:

The first gets the missing webpage error.
The second gets me to the proper page! (on Openbox/fbpanel) The only difference is that this second instance was cut and paste today, not weeks earlier as in the first instance.

For what its worth I'm using Firefox 13.0.1

Am I missing something?!?!?

PS-- I tried the links above, on the "preview before posting page" and still got the same experience

I have had similar problems, were a piece of 'plain text' has
strange effects. For example with LF (line feeds)

For me the important lesson is do not assume that the inexplicable means that your computer is being interfered with by a Dalai Lama government using a quantum computer from another dimension
- or is that just me

In SeaMonkey, if I go to View -> Character encoding -> More encodings and choose one at random, the hidden characters usually show up as weird characters. UTF-8 just ignores them as though they weren't there.

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